Proposal

Aims - The aim is to help people understand how badly animals can be mistreated and tell them all about the sort of ways animals can be mistreated, this allows the audience to get a much more clearer view on animal abuse and i hope to educate them on how serious it can effect the animals after mentally and physical, i will also hope to get more people to start looking out and reporting when they see a animal they believe is being mistreated.

Content - In my documentary i will include the use of experts and interview them about what happens to mistreated animals and how they behave to animals that have not been mistreated and how it affects their lifestyles, i will also use images of animals that have been mistreated and use voice overs talking to the audience about how abuse to animals is not right and not legal, i will also be interviewing people who work with animals, for example my mum and her friends work with horses and i have been given permission by all of them to use them in my documentary and by doing this it allows them to express to the audience how mistreated horses can have a big impact, i will be recording this interviews on sight so for the horses i will go with my mum to the stables and show the horses in the background while interviewing the interviewees as this will show the realism in my documentary.

Target Audience - I will be giving my audience expert advice and extra information they hopefully do not know about, about mistreated animals, by doing this it should attract the interest of my audience and this is my goal, by giving them expert advice by people who work with animals and people who help mistreated animals this allows my documentary to look much professional and allow the audience to believe my documentary and hopefully allow my audience to help animals more than they might do already as i will be stating facts and figures, facts and figures allows my documentary to seem as a trustworthy source as it makes me look like i have put a lot of research into the documentary.

Format - My documentary is participatory, the reason for this is that i will be on the camera on location asking questions to the people i will be interviewing, the reason this is participatory is because i am on camera and not someone else, i am the director and i will be asking the questions to get as much information about the subject as possible, as i do not know much about the subject either this will be a learning experience for me and also a educational one for my audience.

Genre - My documentary will be educational because i will be stating facts and figures and also i will also be learning as well, i will be hopefully informing my audience about a subject they may not know much about and because of this i want to get as much information as possible that most people would not know such as how animals act after being mistreated, do they hide away from people? are they more aggressive towards people or other animals? For me i believe not many people know such things as this and hopefully i can inform them on things like that which they might not know about.

Style - I will use close ups when someone is talking in order to capture facial expressions, by doing this it allows the audience to see how the person is feeling because as animal cruelty can be really emotional for animal lovers so by doing this it makes the audience feel more involved as they will being getting emotions as well. Mid shots will be used for when i want to show the audience the body language of the person who is speaking and also to show the clothing, i say clothing because it allows the audience to somewhat get an idea of who is talking and what they do, for example because i am going to be doing a short documentary about animals i will need to interview people who work with animals and for one i may ask someone who works with horses, the person who works with horses is not going to be in a suit or dress they will be in work clothes and this shows the audience that the people i am interviewing are a trustworthy source of information as they are actually there working. I will use graphics when i am interviewing people and locations, as if when someone is speaking i will show there name at the bottom with their titles such as what they do and how they are relevant to the story, this will allow the audience to understand who is talking and keep them on track of what is happening. The sounds i would use are calm peaceful music when i am showing myself looking for the people i have planned to interview as this puts the audience at ease and allows them to not feel uneasy but when it comes to showing animals that have been mistreated i will allow the sad music to play because i want the audience to get really emotional about the animals that are mistreated and i believe by playing sad music i will achieve this.